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Bath Spa University, BA (Hons), Music

 United Kingdom

Year 1:

  • Performance 1 (including first study instrumental/vocal lessons, optional second study, aural awareness, conducting, ensemble skills)
  • Creative Forum 1 (composition skills, harmony, music technology)
  • Music in the West (musical styles, set works, research skills, critical musicology)
  • Global Music (musical styles, ethnomusicology, field work)

Year 2:

  • Professional Musician (including a work placement, introduction to teaching, marketing and the music industry)
  • Performance 2 (in Classical and Jazz streams)
  • Creative Forum 2 (including collaborative composition with dance or film, as well as orchestration and arrangement)
  • Musical Theatre Practice (taught in collaboration with Drama)
  • Opera Project
  • Musicology 2
  • Music Analysis

Year 3:

  • Performance 3 (includes a public recital)
  • Composition (a composition portfolio)
  • Independent Study (dissertation or lecture recital)
  • Musicology 3 (popular music and music for screen)
  • Music in Action (Community Music)
  • Musical Theatre Project
  • Opera Project
  • Music Psychology

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Location

University has two main campuses, Newton Park (where all the subjects, apart from Art and Design are taught) and Sion Hill (Bath School of Art and Design). Campus located just outside the city of Bath. Students normally use frequent buses, which take them directly to the city centre. The city of Bath is comfortably located only 9 miles from one of the biggest cities in the UK - Bristol and only 90 minutes from the capital London.